Dear Ahmadinejad: Enjoy Space. Stay Awhile.

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In June, Iran will hold its presidential elections, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be replaced, leaving him without much to do, deprived of his political platform for espousing hatred and warmongering. And so he's decided it's time to make some retirement plans, announcing today that he'd like to be the first Iranian human launched into orbit.

It's the perfect way to retire for him, after years of hating so much of Earth. And it also might be a rare case of actual Iranian exceptionalism, relative to how former American presidents have spent their time after leading the free world, perpetually politicking and performing noble charity work, or in isolation (and sometimes banished). Though some erstwhile commanders in chief have lived it up—the first George Bush has a penchant for parachuting—and the now $400,000 of annual income, $50,000 of untaxed expense account, and parting gifts from the executive residence awarded to them aren't exactly barbaric, it's still not becoming a country's first man into space.

So bravo to Ahmadinejad. A rare wise choice.

But that's all still for his future. In the meantime, the Iranian president continued in his announcement to allege corruption by his political rival and likely successor (who himself then responded by threatening to expose Ahmadinejad's own corruption) and warn Iran's astronautical scientists of foreign sabotage, adding, according to Mehr, "Iranians has incited devils' hatred by Iranian idealism, perfectionism, and being human."